Comments on: I Really Do Wonder Sometimes…

By: Rampant Chutney Consumerism

Rampant Chutney Consumerism — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:33:42 +0000

Beards? next to none in London….made me feel like a fucking terrorist

The Phoenix festival, Stratford, 1993…..my musical enlightenment!

just wanted to share like

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:38:57 +0000

As a bit of a caveat/buzzkill, I think the above may actually have been done quite recently, albeit not en masse. But I forget the details.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:33:25 +0000

We’ve talked about that as bloggers, actually – if we could all start writing about some amaaaaazing new band who actually didn’t exist and see how much buzz we could drum up before people realised.

By: Mrs Toad

Mrs Toad — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:26:33 +0000

Actually, do you think if we all collude in wearing bowler hats we could deliberately make them fashionable? Not me obviously, I’m a square.

By: Mrs Toad

Mrs Toad — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:24:50 +0000

My boss, Porsche driver and probable millionaire has a beard. Sorry boys, time for a shave.

If it keeps up like this, it will be “alternative’ to sport a three piece pinstripe suit, bowler and spats.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:04:21 +0000

Beards.

Beards used to be strictly for the alternative lifestyle community, now they’re every-bloody-where. They’ve gone mainstream.

BBC News reporters, Sting, everywhere.

By: Cogstar

Cogstar — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:42:24 +0000

Or possibly your awareness of something is raised due to your ownership / involvement, after that its just a numbers game.

or maybe black magic, actually that’s far more likely and less scary than the marketing stuff.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:40:53 +0000

I know what you mean, aydubzz, but I had always assumed that you ended up in these packs because of somehow noramilising your tastes with the people around you who you like and admire. Seems not though – more like reacting to stuff around you in the same way as a bunch of other people and then gravitating towards that group, even if you don’t initially realise where to find them.

In other words, you can’t escape the Zeitgeist. It’s a bit like a poltergeist in that respect.

By: Aydubzz

Aydubzz — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:31:06 +0000

It’s an interesting story, but whether you intended to be part of the herd or not, there will always be an ‘in’ group and an ‘out’ group. Not only that, but ‘out’ groups tend to create an identity for themselves just to show how ‘out’ of the group they are. But by breaking the same rules, and changing the same norms they end up wearing a uniform, sharing music and even language with each other and before anyone has a chance to chew any cud, they’ve created another herd, but this herd is for milk, not beef!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:56:15 +0000

Shonagh – that’s the bit I don’t get. I thought I’d get all my music from my mates as well, but absolutely none of my mates back then were into even remotely the same stuff. So I don’t know I ended up as such an indie clone.